Recipe: Grapefruit, avocado and fennel salad looks pretty, tastes great
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| Bright flavors of winter blend in this easy and refreshing salad. (Photo: Debbie Arrington) |
Salads are at their best when they showcase fresh flavors of the season. And some colorful combinations look as good as they taste.
This salad combines fresh ruby red or pink grapefruit with avocado, set against a bed of crunchy fennel and cabbage. The pink tones of the citrus and red onion contrast nicely in color, flavor and texture with the pale green avocado and near-white fennel and cabbage.
The choice of red or pink grapefruit is more than just the color; they tend to be sweeter than their yellow or white counterparts. This salad also works well with navel oranges or mandarins.
Whichever citrus you use, this salad brightens up any winter meal.
Grapefruit, avocado and fennel salad
Makes 2 large servings or 4 side salad servings
Ingredients:
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Survey your garden after the May 4 rainstorm. Heavy rain and gusty winds can break the neck of large flowers such as roses. Also:
* Keep an eye on new transplants or seedlings; they could take a pounding from the rain.
* Watch out for powdery mildew. Warmth following moist conditions can cause this fungal disease to “bloom,” too. If you see a leaf that looks like it’s dusted with powdered sugar, snip it off.
* After the storm, start setting out tomato transplants, but wait on the peppers and eggplants (they want warmer nights). Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.
* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.
* Pinch chrysanthemums back to 12 inches for fall flowers. Cut old stems to the ground.
* Mulch around plants to conserve moisture and control weeds.
* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, radishes and squash.
* Plant onion sets.
* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias. Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.
* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.
* Don’t wait; plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.
* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.
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